Houthis mistakenly launch anti-ship ballistic missile at Russian oil tanker 'after mistaking it for British ship' but miss amid soaring tensions after coalition strikes in Yemen overnight
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Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship ballistic missile at a Panama-flagged vessel south of Yemen today, a senior US military official reported, just hours after the UK and US conducted a barrage of airstrikes on rebel targets overnight.
The vessel, sailing some 90 nautical miles south-east of Aden, was mistakenly targeted based on outdated information linking the ship to the UK, according to Ambrey. The maritime risk analyst later reported the tanker was, in fact, carrying Russian oil - and is not the first time the Houthis have made the error.
The missile fired today from Aden reportedly landed in the water between 400 and 500 metres from the vessel. No injuries were reported from the strike, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) stated.
The Houthi rebels today declared British and American interests 'legitimate targets' and threatened retaliation over last night's strikes, declaring: 'The Americans and the British should not believe that they will escape the punishment of our heroic armed forces.
'The joy of the aggressors will not be long, and our hand will be the upper hand, God willing. All American-British interests have become legitimate targets for the Yemeni armed forces in response to their direct and declared aggression against the Republic of Yemen.'
The heavy allied attacks, which killed five people and injured six, according to the rebels, followed weeks of disruptive attacks on Red Sea shipping by the rebel group, who say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
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